Get the picture? Copyright, fair use and visual images

Unraveling the needs of artists, scholars, educators and librarians

By Judy Homer

Libraries have maintained slide collections for many years. Faculty members are mounting images onto Web sites for their classes. Archives and special collections seek to preserve visual images in many formats. Historians depend upon the use of photographs and art for their scholarly work.

Yet the copyright and fair use issues associated with works of art, photographs and other visual images remain highly problematic. Many at Indiana University incorporate visual images in teaching, research and promotions.

The issue will be explored Monday (Dec. 8) at a discussion session at the IUPUI University Library Auditorium, 10-11:30 a.m., led by Kenneth D. Crews, director of the Copyright Management Center at IUPUI.

Because the copyright implications of the ownership and fair use of visual images are complex and sometimes bewildering, the meeting will provide an opportunity to develop an analytical perspective and to explore possibilities for how best to advance teaching and research objectives in the context of existing copyright law.

A discussion of the proposal for the new fair use policy at IU and what it will mean to faculty and staff will be conducted.

The meeting is being sponsored by the IU Digital Imaging Task Force, the IU Art Museum and the Herron School of Art.

For more information:

http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo

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